Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation is a Native American reservation covering 27,413 square miles of land in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. It was established on 1 June 1868 after the "Long Walk", and the Navajo and their Hopi rivals were forced onto the same reservation by the US Army. The Navajo were starved of their livestock and water by the US government and forced to live in a dry climate in the American Southwest. In 2016, the reservation had a population of 356,890 people; a Navajo person must have at least one Navajo grandparent to be considered a member of the tribe.